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The Serious Fraud Office has warned that it may face a conflict of interest
when investigating the accounting practices of Autonomy because it uses its
software.

The fraud watchdog opened an investigation
into Autonomy last month after a complaint from Hewlett-Packard that
directors of the British company had misrepresented the value of the
business before it was sold in October 2011.

The SFO is widely known to use software developed by Autonomy and has a
contract worth £4.6 million with the company that runs until June 2016.